Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Speakers make specific rhetorical choices in their presentations to convey meaning.
- Rhetorical devices include point of view, purpose, personal anecdotes, and word choice.
- Speakers develop the main idea of their presentation by including supporting details to further elaborate on the presentation's central meaning.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify a speaker's rhetorical choices related to point of view, purpose, anecdotes, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings.
- Explain why a speaker made particular rhetorical choices related to point of view, purpose, anecdotes, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings.
- Evaluate how a speaker's rhetorical choices developed the central and supporting ideas of the presentation.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- When creating and presenting a presentation, speakers make specific decisions about structure, format, and vocabulary to accurately convey their central idea.
Vocabulary
- Central idea
- Supporting idea
- Recorded presentations
- Live presentations
- Rhetorical choices
- Point of view
- Purpose
- Anecdotes
- Figurative word meaning
- Connotative word meaning
- Technical word meaning
